National Identity and Foreign Policy: A Study of Authoritarian Politics in Turkey and Russia

• In Event: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

Brief Overview

Why and when do ruling elites choose to invoke national identity in foreign policy practices? This paper examines how national identity interacts with foreign policy in generating regime consolidation in electoral autocracies of Turkey and Russia.

Authors

• Burcu F. Degirmen Dysart, National Louis University

• Sibel Oktay, University of Illinois at Springfield